Graduation Quotes, Sayings about graduating

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
– Tom Brokaw

Don’t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course–because, like democracy and freedom, many people you’ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
– Alice Drue Miller

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
– Epictetus

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
– Richard Halliburton

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
– Wayne Dyer

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Education is simply the soul of society as it passes from one generation to the next.
– Anonymous

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
– Anonymous

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.
– Anonymous

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
– Anonymous

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean to be their own governours, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
– Anonymous

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
– Anonymous

You can lead a boy to college, but you can’t make him think.
– Anonymous

You know that point at your graduation ceremony where everyone throws their caps ? Isn’t it great that we all celebrate how smart we are by throwing sharp pointy objects in the air.
– Anonymous

Education is the best provision for old age.
– Anonymous

College professor–someone who talks in other people’s sleep.
– Anonymous